Legal Question in Family Law in Illinois

The Judge isn't going to be too concerned about items of marital property other than real esate. Sometimes they won't consider furnishings at all. If your wife is going to want to demand that you produce something, she's going to have to provide a picture and a receipt of the item. Also, I would argue that anything that she left in Colorado was now your property as it is in your possession and you have been paying the storage and moving cost for the property. Judges understand that furnishings and incidents get "turned over" during the course of a lifetime and isn't going to be intereted in a dispute over silverware. If an item is clearly something which would not have been disposed and which has substantial extrinsic value, i.e., over a thousand dollars, he/she may ask for an explanation of what happened to the item. I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just disclose what you have in your possession and the cost of preserving the property.